Have you tried Kagi yet? It's pretty popular among HN folks, and I find it easily worth the price.

Kagi indirectly funds the Kremlin's regime, just to know where your money goes if we're talking about not supporting google.

You make it sound like a significant amount is going to Kreml but I assume the API cost for using Yandex from Kagi is neglectable and only a fraction of that goes to the Russian government. Isn't this more of a symbolic thing to request not cooperating with Russian companies?

For some people it doesn’t matter how negligible. And it’s better to know and make up their own mind.

I think that "it's better to know" only really holds up if the scope / context is also included. To put it in concrete terms, I'd amend your statement like this:

Kagi indirectly funds the Kremlin's regime by paying for Yandex API access.

Even worse: it funds the White House’s regime more, by a large margin

Damn, how so?

A small percentage goes to Yandex because they use Yandex as an index: https://kagifeedback.org/d/5445-reconsider-yandex-integratio...

Thanks for this! That’s incredibly disappointing.

How so?

Not every week, more like a couple of times a year when YouTube makes some breaking changes.

Personally I take these periods as healthy time off from YouTube, so I'm no longer even annoyed by them.

> An espresso machine and a grinder will quickly pay for themselves.

Or a pour over filter (like Kalita Wave or Hario V60) plus a grinder. That's a cheaper setup to start, and an easy way to get a big mug of great coffee.

I've started using cash more again to avoid the question.

It was clearly just an imagined scenario to illustrate the author's point.

Ok... Maybe I missed the ques for that, but if that's the case, It's really not obvious from the post. Not to mention the whole thing sounds completely unhinged.

What? Where? I don't believe this to be common, and have some doubts about this existing anywhere at all.

I would not assume denseness -- many/most languages do not have this habit of referring to the capital. So it can easily sound weird if you aren't that immersed in English news and discussions.

I am not assuming denseness, I'm assuming performative denseness. People very often pretend to have stuff go over their head in a sad attempt to make a point.

Different folks are interested in different niches. I don't know this author either. I would know many names from other subfields, though.

I once went to a meetup where the host introduced the speaker with "he needs no introduction". Well to this day I've no idea who the speaker was. Familiarity really shouldn't be assumed beyond a very, very small handful of people.

It is a great game, and the Vox Populi mod has given it so much more life.

VP has hands down the best AI that the Civ series has ever seen. My "wow" moment was when the enemy parachuted to my hinterlands to pillage my critical resources. In comparison, the official AI couldn't even pull off an amphibious attack.

Zoom calls work fine in the browser. They first make it look like you need the native client, but there's some dance you need to make to get the web link. Reload, wait, spin in your chair, something like that.

Of course I would never choose Zoom or Teams if I had the power, but Chromium does work with both when those are the tools your client uses.